Tom Atkins

Actor

“You know, they just don’t make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it’s sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past.”

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Escape from New York

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The Fog

We welcome cult auteur John Carpenter’s triumphant entry into the 1980s after the unexpected success of Halloween with a back-to-back double feature of genre classics. A spooky-silly California ghost tale is transformed by Carpenter’s anamorphic widescreen images into ethereal, macabre atmosphere.